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New Forms of Management, Privatisation and Participation Kreissig, Volkmar and Lang, Rainhard (eds.),

The reader assumes the presentations which were made on the international conference to the same title in St. Petersburg 1999. This conference was a common activity of research committee 10 "participation, organisational democracy and self-management" of the ISA, of the faculty of management of St. Petersburg State University/Russia, of faculty of economics of Technical University Chemnitz/Germany and of individual members of IIRA. The conference was sponsored by German Volkswagen Foundation. The participants of the confernce discussed in their contributions changements nad recent developments of managerial values, of succesful management and of the significance of participation in SME on European level, in Eastern and Western Germany, in Brazil, China, Siberia, Russia. There were discussed special cases of modernisation and participation at Volkswagen AG and of the participation of workers and middle classes in priatisation in Germany, Russia, Poland, Greece, in Russian household economics and municipalities. There are contributions to the subject of education and democracy and women problems dealing with participation in management too. The conference includes theoretical approaches, empirical studies and practical experiences to the subject.

Volkmar Kreissig is visiting Professor at faculty of management of State University St. Petersburg/Russia, Adviser of Labour Minister of the Republic Bulgaria and Director of WIESO-europa in Chemnitz/Germany Rainhard Lang is Professor of economics and chair of organisation and labour sciences at Technical University Chemnitz/Germany and Prorector of international affaires of this University.

(St. Petersburg: State University Publishers), 2000, 202 pp., ISBN (paperback) 5-7997-0248-4. For information on ordering please contact Prof. Dr. Volkmar Kreissig, Director WIESO-europa, Rudolf-Breitscheid-Str. 24, D-09112 Chemnitz, Germany (Tel.: 0049-371-308801, Fax: 0049-371-308802, e-mail:volkmar.wieso@t-online.de)